{"product_id":"sleepwalking-land-9781852428976","title":"Sleepwalking Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"On almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto's delight on those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eThe Last Flight of the Flamingo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The most prominent of the younger generation of writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa, Couto passionately and sensitively describes everyday life in poverty-stricken Mozambique.\"--\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa.\"--Doris Lessing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelter in a burnt-out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, this story and their own develop in tandem. Written in 1992, Mia Couto's first novel is a powerful indictment of the suffering war brings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1955 in Mozambique, \u003cb\u003eMia Couto\u003c\/b\u003e ran the AIM news agency during the revolutionary struggle. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist and heads the Mozambique side of the Limpopo Transnational Park. In 2007 he was the first African author to win the Latin Union Award for Romance Languages; in 2013 he was awarded the 100,000 Cam?es Prize for Literature, in recognition of his life's work. In 2014 he received the $50,000 Neustadt Prize for Literature, and in 2015 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has been active as a journalist and during the revolutionary struggle headed the AIM news agency. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist and runs the Mozambique part of the Kruger National Park.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Serpent's Tail","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50634925146386,"sku":"9781852428976","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_75e8d79a-9d0e-43c7-978d-e4141cb94853.jpg?v=1732825142","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sleepwalking-land-9781852428976","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}